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Spicy Saturday

Poor hubby had to attend a stupid meeting in his office and since I didn’t feel like going out alone, I was stuck at home too. MIL got bhindi for dinner. Now, I am not too fond of the usual bhindi subji, plus I was getting bored, so I suggested we make “bharva bhindi” (stuffed bhindi ). P loves it, I hadn’t had it before and wanted to try it out. It is a simple enough recipe, and I was quite happy with the result. So I decided to be generous, and share the recipe with you folks. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did 🙂

(MIL says you can add finely chopped onions too, but I haven’t tried that out!)

Process:

Mix all the ingredients of the stuffing and set aside

Make a long slit in each bhindi so that you can fill the masala in it, but take care that the bhindi is not cut into two pieces :P.

Fill the masala in each bhindi

Heat up some oil in a tawa. Shallow fry the bhindi keeping the masala side upwards. Turn them over after 5 minutes.

Fry the remaining stuffing (if any) and add it to the fried bhindi.

Bingo! you are done. Wasn’t that easy?

Here is a pic of the final result..

It might not look so good, but it tastes delicious 😀

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of course the picture is telling us the actual taste of the dish is wow 🙂

I make my masala bhindi more or less like this only 🙂

one tip: to make the masala little crisp add some roasted sesame seeds….

also instead of chopped onions you can use onion seeds if you wish…

one more thing: add a little bit of curd[instead of lemon juice] to the entire mix and keep it for a while before you fill it.. not only will it give a little tangy taste which lemon juice will but it will help marinate the entire masala properly 🙂

Looks fantastic…i make something similar (rather my cook makes it) with the groundnuts stuffed in big mirchis. Fairly tasty too…i didn’t get mirchs this week…looks like i am now going to try the stuffed bhindi…